Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-06-02

frightened to invite it to ''smile," and
the brute itself seemed glad to get
away after it found itself observed.
Thoreau said the panther was the only
animal the Indians really dreaded; but
it seems to be a cowardly sneak, and
gets away IL it knows it is seen. /
most heartily agree with the author of
.Old Times" in what he says of our
treatment of the Indian. 1t was, and
is yet, shameful. They ought to have
supreme contempt and hatred for the
white race. AS shown by a recent
writer of history of the Empire State
the whole trouble arose out of the same
cause that crime, drunkenness, and
nine-tenths of our shames arise out of
to-day - land-grabbiDg. The whites
first tried to makes chattel slaves out
of the Indians, but as slave the In
dian was not remarkable success; on
the contrary, he was lamentable fail
ure. Finding they could not use him
as a slave, they seized the land by
which he subsisted, and so not only
drove him away. but secured the en-
slavement of the many to the few of
the whites themselves. Even the land
I call mine was stolen from those who
had lived on it from time immemorIal.
I am blowing their graves, while their
rude arms and implement lay as Curl
Gus relics on my table and desk. True.
there was form of purchase. On the
30th day of July, 1919, Aus ust Chouteau
and Benjamin Stevenson met Pe-mo-a-
tam, Pe-na-see, Kee-tat-ta, She-koan,
Mawn-to-ho, and other chiefs, at Ed
wardsville and received the scrawls and
signatures of the conquered red men;
but it::was bargain with force to back
it-robbery. We ought to make better
use of the land to make amends for the
wrongs it is now too late to mend.
do not know whom r. P. T. refers
to as latter denagogues, but I hope he
does not refer to Henry George and
those who hold with him. Here such
assertions are common, however,
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things have read the man they con-
denim. I find far more lazy headed
than lazy handed men and women, and
though many of them profess and be
Christians, they do not take the trou-
BILE to examine before they decide. So
common is this that am not surprised
that men 60 more and more away from
churches and religion. Antedating the
Christian era by period far greater
than..has elapsed since, the Hindoos rev.
erenced as an attribute of deity the
spirit of self-sacrificing, and ideallzed
it under the name of Chrisna, the self
sacrific Ger. AS their religion degenerat'
ed, what they idoiized and reverenceG
as an attribute, came to be idolized as
a god. In our religion We have made
this same spirit the second person o
our triad, and we pretend to worship
it, but what miserable sham we make
of it. can obtain true happiness only
in one way; and that is by making my
fellowmen happy; but instead of doing
this look out mostly for number one
seize the means by which others mus
live, and so anticipate their labor. In
dustry is a virtue, and for that reason
it should not be fined as msdemean
or or punished as crime. When WI
tax the land we tax everything tina
labor gets from 1t, and it is unjust t.
tax it again. When this tax is appor
toned or assessed according to tn,
rental value, it makes it equitable be
tween man and man. No one has eve
been able to point cut single vali'
objection to such system, and no on
can do so.
The Chicago Tribune seems to hav
Herr Most or August Spies roosting OF
its editorial stool. In late issue it ha
an article on "Georgeism," which j
concludes by saying that the adoption
of such a plan is chimerical, for tn
farmers are in the majority, and boil
they and their sons can shoot and fight
The landowners are smaller minOrit,
and most of our shooting and fightin.
is done in either civil or foreign war
by men who have no homes and NJ
land. But along side this blood curd
ling rant of very brave editor pu
down what Henry George says abou
the use of force in such matters: "Forc
can do nothing for the masses of tn
J people until they form an intelligen
idea of what they want. And thel
force will be needless. 1t is ignoranc
and selfishness that everywhere en-
slaves mankind. All governments, al
institutions rest upon the active sup
port or passive acquiescence of the
masses, and hence social reform is no
matter of fighting, but education
The dynamite idea is infinitely NOR
! powerful than that which throw
houses down and tears holes in tn
street."
Let US make our Christianity some
| thing more than a sham and our De
Inocracy something better than snare
FARMER.
/ Murrayville, ILL.,, May oath, 1887.
Pedagogy.